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PLEASE HELP ME REVISE AND EDIT MY ESSAY?

Dear Mr. Swarmy,
I have received your letter of concerns regarding the requirement of students reading Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” for their English class. I understand the dismay and the direction from which you’re coming.
Teachers are meant to use this piece to explain to students how satire works. The reason that Swift’s writing is approved as an appropriate literary work for our students to examine is because that it's a brilliant example of satire. It’s a parody on the way slightly less distasteful proposals were rationalized by the

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British government at the time. Swift’s proposal is an example of stretching a ridiculous concept to it's absolute limits. His maintenance of such a deadpan stance is what made this piece a great example to use. Many also actually felt that he was serious at the time. Swift purposely leaps from the sorry conditions of Ireland into a savage attack on human indifference and cruelty, writing in the assumed voice of a modern theorist who ironically proposes death to improve life.
Swift is trying to get people to recognize how truly dire the situation of mercenary landlords and widespread poverty was in Ireland. By offering such an outrageous solution, and pretending it's quite reasonable, his readers come to realize that the problem is truly horrific and demands their attention. The entire piece is an exaggeration. Swift does not literally believe the people of Ireland should eat homeless children. It is simply his way of stating the abysmal state of his nation and that something needs to be done to improve the situation.

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